Phoenician Inscribed Bronze Scaraboid Seal. Late 1st millennium B.C. Scaraboid featuring a grooved band across the upper face and an incuse schematic human figure with enigmatic symbols on the underside. Cf. Ben-Tor, D., Scarabs, Chronology, and Interconnections: Egypt and Palestine in the Second Intermediate Period, Fribourg/Göttingen, 2007, pl. 102, no. 36, for a similar schematic figurative representation. 3.1 grams, 13.46 mm (1/2 in.).

Ex London, UK, gentleman, 1990. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

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